Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
基于五个撒哈拉以南非洲国家的微观数据，研究移民教育水平对其汇款行为的影响，发现教育不影响汇款概率但正向影响汇款金额，且该效应在OECD国家消失。
Based on unique microdata from five Sub-Saharan African countries that contain comprehensive information on both migrants and their households at the origin country, we investigate the effect of migrants’ education on their remittance behaviour. Our results reveal that migrants’ education has no impact on the likelihood of sending remittances, but a positive effect on the amount of money sent, conditional on remitting. The latter effect holds for internal migrants and migrants in non-OECD countries, while it vanishes for migrants in OECD destination countries once characteristics of the origin household are controlled for.